Paysite Discussion Thread
purpledaddy:
Are people really not participating as part of The Sims fandom b/c of arguing whether or not website should charge for custom content?? And all this time I thought that the rivalries and jealousies between teams of custom content creators w/in the Sim City fandom (there's a weird but hot and ongoing controversy about the inclusion/exclusion of dependency files in SC custom content) was pretty goofy.
Oh well, as long the games themselves aren't busting my computer, I appreciate what everyon contributes but I'll enjoy the games whether or not they do!
emma_barrett:
my opinion is this - i personally would not suscribe to a paysite when i cant get just as good items for free.
i find it a little greedy of some people to charge when it is perfectly possible to do it for free - there are many free sites out there to back up my thinking on this!
i think the debate about whether is legal or not will go on forever with ea legal doing very little about it until sims 3 comes out then hopefully they'll make it clearer what thier thoughts are ......
i dont disaprove of pirate sites - it is true that ea have confirmed they are not breaking any laws so i cannot see why they can be condemned so long as they dont claim credit for themselves ... which (in most cases) they dont, every item is clearly marked as to where it came from ...
and thats my 2 cents worth :)
kathy:
Quote from: emma_barrett;796035
my opinion is this - i personally would not suscribe to a paysite when i cant get just as good items for free.
i find it a little greedy of some people to charge when it is perfectly possible to do it for free - there are many free sites out there to back up my thinking on this!
i think the debate about whether is legal or not will go on forever with ea legal doing very little about it until sims 3 comes out then hopefully they'll make it clearer what thier thoughts are ......
i dont disaprove of pirate sites - it is true that ea have confirmed they are not breaking any laws so i cannot see why they can be condemned so long as they dont claim credit for themselves ... which (in most cases) they dont, every item is clearly marked as to where it came from ...
and thats my 2 cents worth :)
To be quite frank EA isn't confirming or disconfirming anything. You have various people getting varying responses from varying people and even when someone lucks out and gets a response from the same person they contradict themselves so who knows what they have to say on the matter.
Frankly I don't care enough to listen anymore. Donate, don't donate, pay don't pay. Just drop the legality of the issue already because obviously this has been going on since the Sims 1 and nothing has been done so it is more and more apparent they either don't care or can't be arsed with taking any "legal action" on the matter.
Bottom line it was remotely amusing for about 5 minutes when the paysite content was being redistributed and people were downloading like mad but as usual the drama continues to grow and has sucked the life out of this community.
People are growing more and more belligerent with their demands for free content and both free and paysites are feeling the pressure. There hasn't been one site owner I have spoke to lately who hasn't felt the financial impact and are considering alternative means including closing shop all together.
Think about that next time you are thinking gimme, gimme, gimme.
purpledaddy:
I would think that if EA Games actually cared one way or the other then action probably have been taken by now. Meanwhile it sounds like the webmasters are stressing out over the viability of the fansites.
BeosBoxBoy:
You know, the whole reason I love The Sims™ and The Sims™ 2 is they provide escape from the bad things in the world. A place to make my ideal world with no crime, no poverty, no death, no prejudice, no ugliness. In the Sims community, I discovered a huge number of people who felt as I did. We were all of us battered and bruised enough by the real hurts of this world, and we needed this little thing to help us make it through to the next day.
But nothing good endures. As with all sorts of fandom, you end up with people who start falling prey to the age old arguments of any fandom: FIAWOL (Fandom Is A Way of Life) and FIJAGDH (Fandom Is Just A God Damned Hobby). Just like in science fiction fandom, you had people deciding they would make a living at it with exactly the same sort of hateful amateur versus professional conflict. The same cultish sectarianism as was created by L. Ron Hubbard and his supporters. The parallels are really quite striking.
I have never been able to reconcile the fact that a thing that has the power to bring out the best in people has equal power to bring out the worst in people. Maybe, just maybe, I have some stubborn innocence and naiveté left that won't die quietly, but it seems to me that if you are given the choice to behave like a civilised human being or not, the former would be the natural choice. Facts speak rather the opposite if I measure the data correctly.
So here we stand in the middle of a war zone, a community divided against itself over a game. Why? Is it as Inge says: "A game about a game?" Are we all really so bored and jaded and lacking in real life matters of importance that this can seem important? What about the starving child? The homeless family? The inequality and prejudice of the world? Have these been solved while I wasn't looking? I really don't know, it defies all logic and explanation.
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